The Social Impact of Computer-Mediated Voting

Arnold B. Urken

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Electronic Voting and Options for Individuality
• 2.1 Privacy
• 2.2 Asynchronous Voting
• 2.3 Reliability
• 2.4 Decision Support
• 3. Cardinal Preferences of Four Voters for Three Alternatives
• 4. Condorcet and Copeland Scores for the Voting Scenario in Table 4
• 5. Hypothetical Vote Allocations and Collective Outcomes Under One Person, One Vote (OPOV) and Approval Voting (AV) Methods
• 6. Discussion
• References

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